I deeply empathize with physicists who feel melancholy that the discoveries ahead about the nature of reality may not be made in their lifetimes, although it's worth noting that Peter Higgsgot to see the Higgs particle he theorized about decades ago discovered in his lifetime. The time it might take to devise experiments and expensive, sophisticated machines to conduct them doesn't mean that such discoveries won't be made. They will. There will never be an end to the discoveries of science and the endless layering of cosmic mysteries. The confirmation of the Higgs opens the door to the next quest. That quest has a name: supersymmetry.

If only we could stop spending so much on war and put our limited resources toward exploring the cosmos we call home and our role in the conscious evolution of intelligence. Our own creativity is just as mysterious, if not more so at this point, than the Higgs.